[Xquartz-dev] X11 siplay resolution

Bob bob.spamnot at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 06:07:30 PDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Simone Karin Lehmann <simone at lisanet.de>wrote:

> >
> > My only concern is that the -dpi setting will be wrong with some
> > displays.  We should really be querying the native window system and
> > hardware to retrieve such data.
> >
>
> hhmm, I've tested this on my iMac 20" and on my MacBook 13.3".
> Although the iMac has a physical display resolution of ~ 98 dpi and
> the MacBook 113 dpi, setting "-dpi 96" in startx gives me the same
> font sizes, compared to non-X11 apps.
>

You must have done something wrong because it definitely makes a difference,
at least in terms and emacs.

Bob
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